Green IT beliefs and pro-environmental IT practices among IT professionals

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作者
Molla, Alemayehu [1 ]
Abareshi, Ahmad [1 ]
Cooper, Vanessa [1 ]
机构
[1] RMIT Univ, Sch Business IT & Logist, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
关键词
Practice; Absorptive capacity; Adoption; Behaviour; Structural equation modelling; Empirical study; Green computing/Green IT; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; PERCEPTIONS; BEHAVIORS; AWARENESS; CONSUMER; BUSINESS;
D O I
10.1108/ITP-10-2012-0109
中图分类号
G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];
学科分类号
1205 ; 120501 ;
摘要
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the beliefs and attitudinal factors that affect the private sphere pro-environmental behavior of information technology (IT) professionals in using personal computers. Design/methodology/approach - A research framework that draws from the belief-action-outcome (BAO) framework and that consisted of 11 hypotheses was developed. Data were collected from a sample of 322 IT professionals and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings - The results identify the pro-environmental personal computing actions that IT professionals are taking and how their Green IT beliefs, attitudes, information acquisition capability, and organizational fields influence their behavior. Research limitations/implications - The sample was limited to Australian respondents. The measurement of IT-specific environmental practices was not exhaustive nor were the measures of macro- and micro-antecedents of Green IT belief and attitude. Practical implications - National, regional, and international professional associations such as the Association of Information Systems can influence pro-environmental behavior among IT professionals through the creation and dissemination of information that shape both general and IT-specific environmental beliefs. Originality/value - The novelty of this work lies in: first, proposing and testing a research framework that can be leveraged in future studies; second, establishing how organizational fields and availability of information contribute to the formation of IT professionals' environmental beliefs and attitudes; third, applying and suggesting potential extension to the BAO framework to evaluate the association between IT practices and environmental sustainability among IT professionals.
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页码:129 / 154
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